1 is conducive to winning people's hearts. Before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the people were at war for years and their lives were miserable. The first step for Ming Taizu to reunify the country is to calm people's hearts and let them get out of the war and rebuild their homeland. Therefore, recuperation is also the general trend.

It is conducive to the reproduction of the population and creates a large number of productive labor. As we all know, successive wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty caused a sharp drop in a large number of young and strong laborers, so it was also an urgent move for the new Ming government to multiply the population and accumulate a large number of laborers.

The most fundamental point is that the policy of rest and recuperation is a policy and law that every new dynasty must follow at the beginning of its establishment, because the change of each dynasty has to go through primitive accumulation such as massive construction and the revival of everything before it can move from corruption and war in the previous dynasty to new prosperity.